LAB MEETING, CREATIVE DIALOGUE, «CONTEMPORARY ART IN NON-ART MUSEUMS»
February 25 - 26, 2016, at MuCEM in Marseille. In the lab meeting SWICH partner museums reflected on experiences around collaborations with artists.
Organized by Mikael Mohamed, Jean-Roch Bouiller and Aude Fanlo
The lab meeting allowed four SWICH partner museums (National Museum of World Cultures/NL, Weltmuseum Wien/AT, Slovene Ethnographic Museum/SI, Mucem/FR) to share experiences on the artist residencies they organized. The discussions focused on concepts, expectations, processes and results. This pragmatic exchange went along with some more general thoughts about interferences between contemporary art and “non-art” museums. Performing “in situ”, curating exhibitions or creating new artworks alongside displayed collections: artists intervene at museums in different ways. What interpretation, what shift in the status of an object, what re-contextualization or what creative rearrangement can the reinterpretation of a collection by an artist uncover? What difficulties should we overcome as part of this dialogue in order to make sure it does not come across as artificial or conflictual? What different kinds of relations with audiences can arise from this fertile confrontation?
9 am: Welcome
10 am: "Items, Representations, speeches: Getting out of the post-colonial misunderstanding", Evelyne Toussaint, Professor of Contemporary Art History, Toulouse
11 am: "Why do artists seize upon social sciences?", Alexandre Quoi, Lecturer in Contemporary Art History, Aix-Marseille University
1 pm: Residency at National Museum of World Cultures, Leiden/Amsterdam. Lina Issa, Artist-in-Residence, Wayne Modest, Head of Research Center for Material Culture
1:45 pm: Residency at Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna. Rajkamal Kahlon, Artist-in-Residence, Christian Schicklgruber, Chief Curator and Deputy Director Weltmuseum Wien, Doris Prlic, SWICH-Coordinator
2:30 pm: "Presentation of the Slovene Ethnographic Museum. Bianca Baldi, Artist-in-Residence, Tina Palaic, Curator at Slovene Ethnographic Museum, Bojana Rogelj Skafar, Adviser at Slovene Ethnographic Museum
3:15 am: Residency at MuCEM, Marseille
4:45 pm - 7 pm: Visit of the Resources Conservation Center of the MuCEM
9 am Contemporary Art at MuCEM: a pre-inventory assessment, Jean-Roch Bouiller, Curator and Head of Contemporary Art Department
10 AM - 12 pm: "Artists, collections, publics: experience feedback"
speakers: Agnès Barruol, curator of contemporary art exhibitions at the Castle of Avignon, David Djaoui, Archeologist at Museum of Antiquity of Arles, Burkhard Blümlein, artist, Raphael Abrille, deputy director - Museum of Hunding and Nature, Paris, Christine Germain, curator and director of the Museum of Decorative Arts and Fashion at the Borely Castle, Marseille
